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Colllections of great sites:

• Lots of great tools and ideas at : http://eduscapes.com/sessions/graphic/dynamic.htm

• Graphic Inquiry: http://eduscapes.com/sessions/graphic/dynamic.htm

Creating - sites & tools for creating

Create comics, graphic novels, telling stories: Storytelling & Animation tools

--(Check out: -Animated Myths created by my students 2011-2012)

Documents & Quick Creations for posting:

• Create a page instantly - with video, pics, etc: Checkthis

• Create a page instantly: http://www.pageorama.com/

• Create online Flyers and publish: http://www.smorepages.com[[http://www.smorepages.com/|/]]

• Convert PDF to Word: http://www.pdftoword.com

Create Videos: See Storytelling tools!!!

Create Websites or Wikis:

Creating websites: 1. Easy for students to use: http://www.weebly.com/

- Create basic website in a safe and educationally based environ.: http://www.thinkquest.org/en/ 3. Good website. Yet has ads. Students can collaborate by using same login & password: http://www.moonfruit.com/

Wikispaces:

• Simple way to create a wiki: www.wikispaces.com

• -What is a Wiki - view video: commoncraft

• 5 ways to use a Wiki in the Classroom: Free Technology for Teachers

• -Teacher flyer with great links! (pdf): handout

• -How-to Videos: http://www.wikispaces.com/content/wiki-tour/introduction

• YouTube -How to Videos for both beginner & advanced! : http://www.youtube.com/user/wikispacesvideos

• -Presenting Wiki to others: toolkit

Adding Accents for many Languages:

• http://www.typeit.org/

Infographics:

• How to create infographics video: http://vimeo.com/55186393

• Great for 1st timers: http://www.easel.ly/

• Works with Internet Explorer: www.piktograph.com

Multimedia Creations:

- Online posters - use pics, vids, text, & more: http://www.glogster.com

Adding images & more to your creation:

- need to only supply (copy & paste) name of photographer or link for each item:

• Over one million copy-right free images, music, & video- need to only supply (copy & paste) credit or link for each item: http://creativecommons.org/videos/get-creative

• Search Creative Commons by both tag & actual content : http://www.behold.cc/

• 1,000s for copy-right free photos: Morguefile

• Bloggers - Quickly find copy-right free photos -includes attribution caption : Wylio

• 5 more sites for photos: freetech4teachers

• Some copyright free photos for students: FreeFoto & http://pics4learning.com/

• *** Royalty Free images:
  http://www.clker.com/ (clipart)
  http://www.sxc.hu/ (pictures)

• Collection of free photos, music, & more:http://www.archives.org/

• More copyright free photos: http://www.pics4learning.com/

• **Make your images interactive: http://www.thinglink.com/

• -------Tingling how-to-video: freetech4teachers

• Editing Photos:

• Editing photos: PicMonkey Easy text layering, cut-outs, arrows, speech bubbles, frames, & easy crop & resize

• Ribbet - collages, touch-ups and advanced photographic effects like curves and clone tools, fonts, frames, stickers, vampire effects, beards, and an entire pond full:

  
  For great things you can do with Ribbet:
  http://www.thedaringlibrarian.com/2013/03/10-tips-for-digital-photo-editing-fun.html
  
  

• & http://pixlr.com/

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• PDF -> JPG :

  
  Highlight portion of pdf you want then grab that highlighted area and drag to desktop. Then in desktop you can change & edit on Microsoft photo editor once you open the picture – bottom and far right button. Change pdf to jpg when saving.

Adding Video:

• Cut YouTube videos just like you want them & embed them in websites/blogs:

• Cut videos on YouTube - make sure to get URL from top of the page & not the share/link: http://www.splicd.com/

• Take out the distraction just show the YouTube video by itself!: Quietube.com

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• Upload your video and follow 1,000's of other creators: Vimeo.com

Download videos from YouTube, etc., to your computer:

-Zamzar

-Keepvid

• Documents: A. Embed video into Microsoft Word : hpTeacherExperienceExchange

Adding Narration:

• creates a webpage or embed for your narration - no signing up needed:http://vocaroo.com/
• Add narration to presentations by typing it & the computer speaks -simple: HelloSlide

• Add audio/narration to websites/wikis easily with Audioboo: http://audioboo.fm/

• Add audio and video narration to presentations: http://slidesix.com/

Adding Music -sampling and mixing:

• ANP Music Library - Just like what the 'pros' use: http://www.audionetwork.com/

• Free Music:

• Free Music -for videos: http://vimeo.com/

• Free music - instrumental hip-hop & other genres: Jamendo

• List of 34 sites!!!: eLearning Industry

Put mp3 music on their player and embed in any site: snacktools

• Royalty free sounds

http://www.soundjay.com/

List of tons of free sites:

http://elearningindustry.com/subjects/free-elearning-resources/item/388-ultimate-list-free-music-elearning-online-education


***Unfortunately, Wikimedia is blocked by NISD:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

Voices and Sound Effects:

• Free sound effects: http://www.pacdv.com/sounds/voices-1.html

• Paid site for music & sound effects: http://www.audiosparx.com

Adding & create documents, powerpts & pdfs:

• Create a pdf - any doc. uploaded to Google Docs can be converted: GoogleDocs

• Add or share docs, powerpts, & pdfs to your presentations: slideshare

Add & create an ebook/digital book:

• Make your pdfs look incredible as a digital book: issuu.com

• Do the same thing here but places it on a table: snacktools

Adding QR codes:

• Librarians - add QR codes to books or shelves so students can read reviews!

• Create a QR code -both text and audio: kaywa or http://qrvoice.net/

• Voice QR's : use audioboo to record, title your boo, and then search the boo in audioboo and then copy the url address at the top of the page and place in a QR code generator such as Google. Or use audio memo on ipad and then email file to your gmail/docs - & it converts it to http automatically

• Create colorful QR's and put images as background: http://www.visualead.com

• How to: Create audio file & QR code: Langwitches

• Make codes & shapes with your QR code: http://www.qrstuff.com/

Create videos, games & more:

• Create- a youtube movie, a facebook app, a video game, and more: http://www.freshbrain.org/

• Create stop motion videos easily: JellyCam

• Create interactive games, stories, etc.!: http://scratch.mit.edu/

Going Mobile & Creating Apps:

• Step 1 -Creating an iphone app & uploading to itunes: makeuseof.com

• Step 2 - How to create an iphone or android app: makeuseof.com

• Step 3 - Go to this site: buzztouch.com

• Using smartphones for reporting and recording: http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/

Radio/Podcasting:

• Youth Public Radio producers - check out the 'RESOURCES': http://generation.prx.org/

• Make your own Radio Diary : http://www.radiodiaries.org/makeyourown.html

• StoryCorps - a website that collects life stories and show you how to record & share stories: http://storycorps.org/about/

• All about Podcasting:

  

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• http://www.epnweb.org/

Managing your creations:

Storage & File Sharing:

1. Free Cloud space : http://www.dropbox.com/

2. Get free cloud storage & emails & collaborative tools for both your studenttea you: Microsoft live@edu

3.. Upload, Download, & share large files up to 1GB:http://www.uploaderbox.com/

Conversion sites:

1. Convert a video or almost anything!: http://www.online-convert.com/

2. Convert PDF to Word: http://www.pdftoword.com

Other helpful tools & guides:

• Shorten URLs or Web Addresses: http://goo.gl/

• Beginners guide to html with practice exercises: w3schools.com

• Save web articles as PDF for later reading: http://joliprint.com/

• Documents: A. Embed video into Microsoft Word : hpTeacherExperienceExchange